Insole.



C. V. EMMONS.

INSOLB.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 22, 1913. 1,065,035.

Patented June 17, 1913.

6262 TZeJ E CHARLES V, EMMONS, F CHCGrO, ILLINOIS.

INSOLE tenaces,

specincationof Letters resent.

ratenteuauneaa, isis.

Application filed January 22, 1913. Serial No. 743,466.

To 0:22 whom fmay concern Be it known that l, CHARLES V. EMMoNs, acitizen of the United States, residing at AChicago, in the county ofCook and State of Illinois, have invented' a new and useful Improvementin nsoles, of which the `following is a specification.v

My invention relates to an improvement,

in the construction of the feature of an inA sole known as the lip,through which the welt is sewed in place.

The object of my invention is to cheapen the construction of the insoleby simplifying that of the lip, and this Without mutilating theleatherbody, as is done by the ordinary method vof forming the lip, namely bycutting into the side edges and about the toe-portion of the body toform thereon an attached strip of about one-fourth of an inch in Width,and then turning or curling that strip to a right-angle and covering theface of the leather body with canvas cemented to it and clenched aboutthe lip so formed Ato conform to and reinforce the latter.'

O l accomplish the aforesaid object by the construction hereinafterdescribed and illus-` y trated in the accompanying drawing, in Which`Figure'l is a plan View of my improved insole; Fig. 2 is a broken planView of the same, disclosing the features of my imforming in shape tothat of the body Il.

These layers are `cemented latwise together and placed in a suitablemold to form upon them, by preference While pressing them together anddrying theI cement, the ridgelike lip and thecovering thus formed iscemented, at the burlap-layer, to the surfacev of the leather body 4. Inthis' Way, I provide the necessary insole-lip Without mutilating theleather body, which not only saves weakening it but avoids'a.comparatively fpensive operation, for Which ll substitute the moldingof the lip on tWo thickness-es of covering, thereby adding` to theordinary insole-construction one layer of inexpensive material andcementing them together .by a simple and inexpensive lipmoldingoperation.

I am aware thatit is old to form the lip, by molding, on a single pieceof canvas cemented to the surface of a leather body 4t;

but that construction fails to secure the canvas covering, bycementation, durably to the leather, because thc canvas is insufcientlyporous to absorb enough of the cement for the purpose. By providing theunder layer 5 'of loosely Woven material, such as burlap, which is veryporous, it absorbs a' suliiciently large amount of cement to causeenduring cementation of the lip-carrying fabric-covering to the leather;and this aside from the additional advantage of the double thickness offabric in reinforcing the lip to cause it'to stand up rigidly, while thelip formed with a single layer of canvas fails inv that regard.

lVhat l claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is- Aninsole comprising a body-portion and two layers respectivelyofcoarsely-Woven fabric and finely-Woven fabric cemented together andformed with a lip composed of the. two thicknesses of fabric, saidlayers forming a covering cemented at the under CHARLES V. 'EMMONS Inpresence of- A. C. FISCHER, NELLIE B. DEARBORN.

